Park Slope is, for the most part, both built out and zoned out. Aside from the lots along Fourth Avenue, which was rezoned to allow mid-rise development in 2003 (at the same time that the rest of the neighborhood was downzoned), there are very few opportunities for infill growth, fueling higher prices further out, in neighborhoods like Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect/Crown Heights.
But there are still small bits of land available here and there, and one developer found a pair of buildable lots at 18 Garfield Place, just to the east of Fourth Avenue.
There, Clinton Hill-based developer Farhad Bokhour is planning to erect a four-story (plus penthouse), eight-unit building on a soon-to-be-combined 50-foot lot. Issac & Stern would be the architects.
The building is planned to have a total of nearly 10,000 square feet of net residential space (plus nearly 4,000 square feet of space that doesn’t count towards zoning), yielding condo-sized apartments of more than 1,200 square feet on average. The plans are fore two apartments per floor, with the top floor units being duplexes with space on both the fourth floor and the extra penthouse level (the ground floor units will also have access to a theoretically uninhabitable cellar space, which in practice can often be used as an extra bedroom).
No parking is required, and none will be built.
The project would replace a pair of dumpy vinyl-faced homes, at 18 and 20 Garfield Place, with five units between the two of them. The developer hasn’t yet closed on the properties (with Department of Buildings approvals stretching past 12 months in some cases, builders have begun filing permits ahead of actual land transactions), but No. 18 has been in the hands of its current owner since 1972.
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